Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 121

The Butterfly was nearly as frightened as his wife, and Suleiman-bin-Daoud laughed so much that it was several minutes before he found breath enough to whisper to the Butterfly, ‘Stamp again, little brother.

Who acts: Suleiman, garden · What happens: frighten, laugh, be, find, whisper · To what, where: Butterfly, several minutes, breath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suleiman, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 as	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laughed	cc
12	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 laughed	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Suleiman	punct
14	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Suleiman	flat
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 bin	punct
16	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Suleiman	flat
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	17 laughed	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 found	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 minutes	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 minutes	cop
23	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 minutes	amod
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 found	obl:unmarked
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 found	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 laughed	advcl
28	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 found	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 whisper	mark
31	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 found	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Butterfly	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Butterfly	det
34	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 whisper	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Stamp	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 Stamp	punct
37	Stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Butterfly	appos
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 Stamp	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 brother	punct
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 brother	amod
41	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Stamp	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the Butterfly		as Butterfly's wife	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	laugh	past	Suleiman				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	garden	several minutes			tree rules
4	find	past	Suleiman	breath		enough property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent breath=Attribute clause=Theme
5	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive			the Butterfly		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to butterfly=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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